The county successfully renegotiated a $10 million short-term loan with Capital City Bank for the hospital construction and renovation into a $10 million long-term loan with BB&T Bank. The loan comes to maturity in 2030 and has a 20-year fixed term rate of 5.03 percent. Capital City Bank will be repaid $987,351 for advancing the short-term loan. Another $160,000 will be needed to remodel the pharmacy but Craig McMillan, chairman of the board of directors of Gadsden Hospital Inc., said the funds are available.

More than 1,000 family members and friends of De'Sherrime "Dee Dee" Murray, 17, paid their last respects March 14 at West Gadsden High School gymnasium.

Others, including many elected officials, were there to show support for the family. Murray died at Tallahassee Memorial Hospital – the same hospital where she was born in 1992 – one day after the school bus she and 48 other students were riding from school crashed into a tree on Lincoln Street, south of Chattahoochee.

When other law enforcement officers from three different agencies noticed in 2008 that Gadsden County Sheriff's Office Deputy Anthony Brown was filling containers in the trunk of his patrol car with gasoline they reported the incident to Sheriff Morris Young.

Louis “Tre” Zanders III is proud of the fact that his grandfather, Louis Zanders Sr. - who shares his name - has made history as the first black Florida Department of Transportation officer in the state.

And now Louis Senior can be extra-proud of Louis III – Tre was recently named the winner of the Governor’s Student Essay Contest as part of the state’s celebration of Black History Month – and he is the first Gadsden County student to do so, etching his own place in history.

The two Gadsden County Boys and Girls Clubs are not affected by the closing, from March 8 to April 2, of 10 Boys and Girls Clubs of the Big Bend in Tallahassee. The clubs in Havana and Chattahoochee will remain open and hours of operation will remain the same.